Questions tagged [divine-simplicity]
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Question about the Thomistic view of God's attributes
According to Thomism, God's essence must be identical with his attributes, lest God has real attributes he is dependent upon for his being and "compose" his essence, compromising God's aseity and his oneness. This would mean that God has no real…
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Absolute Divine Simplicity (ADS) and the Triune Godhead
Though apparent, the framework of the Triune Godhead appears logically incoherent in juxtaposition to the Absolute Divine Simplicity model.
Looking through the works of Thomas Aquinas, who is the most crucial figure in the development of this model,…
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Would a divine being having properties of multiple orders undermine the point of attributing divine simplicity to this being?
It seems as if debates about divine natures, among the "laity," are usually preoccupied with what have been called first-order properties of those natures. So we see the perennial quibbling over naive definitions of "omniscience" or "omnipotence."…
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Divine simplicity vs. divine aseity
Although the concept of divine simplicity is so poetic that I almost wish I could believe it, as it turns out, I can't believe it. Here's my argument:
[Assumption for reductio] The creatrix is a se and the creatrix is not simple.
The creatrix is…
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